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The Fulness of the Gospel

The new and everlasting covenant is the fulness of the gospel — and the fulness turns out to be a marriage. These essays follow the whole arc: the vessel made at the font and filled with fire, the covenant wine guarded from staleness and counterfeit, the wedding revealed, the promises borne through the children, and the daily work of living it faithfully inside imperfect religion.

13 essays

  1. 1The WineskinWhy new wine needs a new bottle, how a wineskin is actually made — and what that has to do with baptism
  2. 2Even UntilHalf a baptism, a prison full of fire, and the one word that separates being promised the Holy Ghost from actually receiving it
  3. 3Made New Among YouAn angel stops a wine errand — and one short revelation teaches what belongs in the cup, how to keep it fresh, and what to wear to the feast
  4. 4The WeddingThe new and everlasting covenant has a plain definition, an old name the world never stopped saying, and four cups on its table — this is the essay where the series learns what the feast is*
  5. 5By Whom the Promises RemainThree oddities in one verse — and the discovery that the promises made to the fathers have been waiting on the children, on you, all along
  6. 6Not One JotHow do you live the fulness on a Tuesday? Jesus answered with thirty-three years of example — a fringe, a fish, a coin, and a curtain that only God could close
  7. 7The Restoration of the Fulness of the Gospel: The Truth of the Birthright BlessingOn the two presses, the vineyard planted with olive trees, the two tools given to Israel, and what the birthright was always for
  8. 8The Works That FollowA capstone reading of Third Nephi 27 — on the gospel as a drawing, the works that testify, the fire nobody lights for you, the night when the weaving stops, the justice of the Father, and what it means to be filled
  9. 9An Offering in RighteousnessA fold study of the sons of Levi, the transition from the preparatory gospel to the fulness, and the day the Firstborn walked into the river of the substitute tribe — not out of fear, but love
  10. 10The Form of GodlinessA companion to "The Power of Godliness" — the grove's verdict run as an audit of Christendom's ordinances circa 1830: the Protestant gate-wars and fenced tables, the Roman skeleton, the Eastern aim and floor plan, and the Restoration as the reassembly of fragments every branch of the family had kept in partial, loving, damaged custody
  11. 11Without MeasureA tare-removed study of the fulness of the gospel — what it is, how it breaks, and where the Name was always meant to be written
  12. 12The Third BaptismOn the three baptisms — the water at the strait gate, the fire on each head, and the Breath that fills the whole house — with the grammar of Pentecost, the architecture of the sheepfold, the geometry of the narrow way, and why the last baptism has never once been received alone
  13. 13The Lord Working With ThemA study of one verse — the last sentence of Mark, the Greek word hiding inside it, what gives dead works life, why the promise runs to the gathered two, and the mathematics of a work once God is in the midst of it